Friday, October 18, 2013

Nanotechnology urine test could detect deadly blood clots

So who is going to translate this into  a actual test usable in doctor offices and hospitals?  Damnable lazy stroke associations, you know who you are. Why don't you ever write on survivor blogs telling us what you are doing for survivors?

Nanotechnology urine test could detect deadly blood clots

The abstract this is based on here;

Nanoparticles That Sense Thrombin Activity As Synthetic Urinary Biomarkers of Thrombosis

Thrombin is a serine protease and regulator of hemostasis that plays a critical role in the formation of obstructive blood clots, or thrombosis, that is a life-threatening condition associated with numerous diseases such as atherosclerosis and stroke. ... Using a thromboplastin-induced mouse model of pulmonary embolism, we show that urinary biomarker levels differentiate between healthy and thrombotic states and correlate closely with the aggregate burden of clots formed in the lungs. ... Here we hypothesized that synthetic biomarkers could be tailored to survey intravascular sites for acute thrombosis, the activation of a cascade of protease activity that orchestrates the formation of obstructive blood clots within vessels (Figure 1A)

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